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Ganahl: A look at J.D. Vance, Trump’s vice-presidential candidate, a Marine veteran and first Millennial on a major-party ticket
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Ganahl: A look at J.D. Vance, Trump’s vice-presidential candidate, a Marine veteran and first Millennial on a major-party ticket

By Heidi Ganahl | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice When former President Donald J. Trump announced U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, would be his vice-presidential running mate on the Republican Party's presidential ticket, it concluded months of speculation. He becomes one of the youngest vice-presidential candidates in the history of the United States, and he's also the Millennial generation's first candidate to appear on a major-party ticket. Born on Aug. 2, 1984, Vance, 39, has crafted a compelling narrative through his life experiences and political stances. Raised protestant, he converted to catholicism in August 2019. Vance is married to Usha Chilukuri Vance, whom he met at Yale Law School. They married in 2014 and have three children: Ewan, Vivek, and Mirabel. Usha, a corporat...
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Fabbricatore: A law enforcement leader’s perspective on the assassination attempt on President Trump
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Fabbricatore: A law enforcement leader’s perspective on the assassination attempt on President Trump

By John Fabbricatore | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Have you ever experienced a situation where things happen that are done right, but still go horribly wrong? The recent assassination attempt on President Donald Trump's life is a stark example of this. While the Secret Service was prepared to lay down their lives for the former President and current Republican Presidential candidate, the fact that a shooter managed to get within 140 yards of the stage represents a significant failure in security protocols. Something went wrong, and, as a result, hearings should be held, Freedom of Information Act requests made, and hopefully we can come to an understanding of why this security lapse occurred.  As we uncover the details and analyze what went wrong, it's crucial t...
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Lake: It’s 1968 all over again, the year that left two leaders dead and shattered our politics
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Lake: It’s 1968 all over again, the year that left two leaders dead and shattered our politics

By Eli Lake | Commentary, The Free Press For months now, the parallels between 2024 and 1968 have seemed eerie. The Democratic convention is once again in Chicago this August, as it was 56 years ago. The Democratic incumbent, once again, is despised by his left-wing base and seems out of touch with voters. College campuses are once again aflame over a foreign war. And yet despite these echoes, anyone familiar with the horrors of 1968 would have thought things were much worse in that year of street battles and riots than today. Until Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania. Yesterday evening, an assassin’s bullet came a hair’s breadth away from killing the Republican nominee and front-runner in the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump. Instead, the bullet grazed his ear, set...
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Boyd: Contrary to media claims, inflation index shows Americans still face sky-high prices
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Boyd: Contrary to media claims, inflation index shows Americans still face sky-high prices

By Jordan Boyd | Commentary, The Federalist Contrary to the corporate media cabal’s desperate attempt to paint the Consumer Price Index report for June 2024 as a sign that inflation “cooled” and will continue “cooling” and “slowing” the closer the nation gets to November’s presidential election, Americans are still paying higher prices on basic day-to-day goods and services than they did in the last four years. When the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest inflation index showing a 0.1 percent decrease in prices from May 2024 to June 2024, press outlets and the Democrat regime rushed to bill the data as a sign that inflation is “at its lowest level in more than three years.” The New York Times’ Paul Krugman, whose partisa...
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Jeffrey: Joe Biden Is The $7 Trillion Dollar Man
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Jeffrey: Joe Biden Is The $7 Trillion Dollar Man

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY | Commentary, The Daily Caller Since President Joe Biden was inaugurated, the federal debt has increased by more than $7 trillion. On Jan. 20, 2021, the day of Biden’s inauguration, it was $27,751,896,236,414.77, according to data published by the U.S. Treasury Department. As of this Fourth of July, it was $34,847,568,990,054.13. That is an increase of $7,095,672,753,639.36 — in less than four years. No other president has increased the debt that much between his inauguration and the Fourth of July in his fourth year in office. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT THE DAILY CALLER Editor's note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the management of the Rocky Mou...
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Ashbaugh: How a Latino Democrat and a Black Republican opened a white, middle-aged woman’s eyes 
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Ashbaugh: How a Latino Democrat and a Black Republican opened a white, middle-aged woman’s eyes 

By Erin Ashbaugh | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice  “I’m a Republican.” he said.  “Ohhhh, I never pegged you to be that. I don’t think we can be friends anymore,” I laughed, only half-kidding. I was what one would consider a “Far Left” Democrat living in Boulder, CO when I said this, and Republicans were “the enemy.” The Republican friend of mine who I so quickly judged, as we reconnected after years of not seeing each other, was Lavelle Lewis, a football and basketball player who I’d cheered for during our years at IHS in Rochester, NY. After a couple of cups of coffee, I realized that as liberal as I was, Lavelle and I weren’t so different. Believe it or not, our values, morals, and political perspectives were rooted in similar ideals, just with different app...
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Harsanyi: If you were duped on Biden’s cognitive decline, you’re too dumb to be a journalist
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Harsanyi: If you were duped on Biden’s cognitive decline, you’re too dumb to be a journalist

By DAVID HARSANYI | Commentary, The Federalist By the time we saw Joe Biden’s debate debacle, the media had spent four years covering up his mental and physical decline to help Democrats. After Biden’s fragile mental state was exposed, the media instantaneously began pushing Biden out of the presidential race to help Democrats. The goal remains the same. The Wall Street Journal reports this week that Biden’s senior advisers “aggressively stage-managed” the president’s “schedule, movements and personal interactions, as they sought to minimize signs of how age has taken a toll on the oldest president in U.S. history.” Basically, everyone in the White House — as well as big-money donors — conspired to hide that the president of the United States was unable to perf...
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Lake: Brand-new Republican Party platform leans into popular MAGA for the masses issues
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Lake: Brand-new Republican Party platform leans into popular MAGA for the masses issues

By Eli Lake | Commentary, The Free Press For the last eight years, Donald Trump has ignored a basic rule of politics: always expand your base and appeal to as many supporters as possible. Well, if the new Republican Party platform is any indication, Trump is finally taking this conventional advice about elections.  The new document, out this week, is far briefer than past platforms and reads like MAGA for the masses. It’s dedicated to the “forgotten men and women of America.” Trump has used the phrase since 2016, but it was made famous after a 1932 radio speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  As one might expect, the document emphasizes immigration, Trump’s signature issue. And in some cases the language is extreme. For example, in the all-cap...
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Moore: The case for ‘Draining the Swamp’ is stronger than ever
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Moore: The case for ‘Draining the Swamp’ is stronger than ever

By Stephen Moore | Commentary, Townhall.com The latest official employment report finds once again that the federal government and state-local hiring spree is still in full gear. Over the past year, health care and government hiring has outpaced every private sector industry. It isn't just the IRS bringing on thousands of new workers. The bloat is everywhere. So even though there are a lot more government workers, good luck finding them or getting them on the phone. This is because so few of them are actually physically on the job. What's happening in the federal government ("Club Fed") these days borders on the absurd -- or should I say the obscene. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT TOWNHALL.COM Editor's note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author...
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Sloan: What’s next for Britain?
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Sloan: What’s next for Britain?

By Kelly Sloan | Columnist, Rocky Mountain Voice Well, if anything, that was maybe even a bit worse than expected. There is no sugar-coating it, the Conservatives in Great Britain absorbed a catastrophic defeat last week in that country’s national elections.  It was a defeat of literally historic proportions – the worst showing for the British Conservative party in its history. The Tories lost 234 seats, coming away with a mere 131 in the 650-seat Parliament. As electoral rebukes go, that was a pretty clear one.  But the question lingers as to how much the results indicate a sea-change in British political alignment. Britian’s parliamentary, first-past-the-post system assigns winners, but it also does a remarkable job at concealing underlying trends.  An analytic...
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